My wife's trusty G3 iMac exhibits a minor quirk. On occasion the
power button does nothing and the machine will not switch on. This
happens in two circumstances, either at a normal switch on or at a
restart after doing an installation when it shuts down and will not
restart. In either situation the cure is to unplug the power cord
from the back of the case and plug it back in again - and then the
button functions as it should. The power cable is a good snug
positive fit and visually I see no reason to suspect a bad contact. I
suspect it is something to do with the power management unit, I assume
the G3 iMac has one of these.
This is only an occasional fault and easily fixed but is annoying and
I would like to know the explanation.
I realise that one response may be that I buy my wife a nice new
computer!
Severin Crisp
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Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
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